Christmas Cards - Noel

 

 

 

Contents: Basic Grey Figgy Pudding papers (yummm), Woodware flower pot and tag punches, Tim Holtz Black Soot distress ink.

Christmas Card - new design

Finally used my BG Figgy Pudding papers and managed to set part of it on fire on a candle! It was a very small fire though so not much harm done... actually looked quite cool in a very non-cool way. Anyway, hope you like this one, more to follow. Other papers by Dovecraft, 'Tis the Season' and just printed out the letters and cut them out.

Christmas - Let it Snow

 

Guess what - I bought some inks!! Woohoo! As you can see I used them asap, my technique may need refining but it was fun! Did this on a similar theme to the 'Love Joy Peace' one but added a crystal gem and some glittery mini-bauble stickers. The paper are scraps left over from other cards by Dovecraft, 'Christmas Blues'.

Christmas Cards - red, gold and green (Part 2)

 

 

 

Sorry about the poor quality of the pictures but here are the rest of the cards I've made with the red and gold embellishments I had. I've kept the style much the same with a few minor variations.

Contents: Tis the Season paper by Dovecraft, etc. etc..

Daring Cardmakers Challenge - Christmas Cards Red Gold and Green

 

 

 

Here's around half a series of red, gold and green Christmas Cards I'm doing, using some lovely shapes that my friend's mum bought me for Christmas crafting! I'm really pleased with the effect here. I don't as yet have any inks so I shaded the edges of the papers for definition. Then I cut out squares using the cloud scissors and glued the trees and star onto these, in the cases of the trees using green card for the background. I then threaded ribbon through the top and punched out some mini snowflakes and gold circles to embellish. Hope you like it as much as I do! :)

Christmas - Love Joy Peace

 

Christmas Joy - smudge

 

Christmas Joy - blue and cream

 

Christmas Joy - blue and white

 

I really like this! Gonna try and make a few of them now. Doing the ribbons on the tags was a bit fiddly but I really like the end result.

Contents: Woodware mini and regular snowflake, tag punches, ribbon, Dovecraft Christmas Blues paper, Eggshell paper from The Papermill Shop, foam pads, pencil for shading.

Christmas Card 3

 

Just trying to find a design that's fairly quick and easy to do so I can mass-produce it. What do you think of this one? There's room for improvement but I like the general idea.

Contents: Tis the Season paper by Dovecraft, ribbon by CraftsUDo, Card by The Papermill Shop, Woodware tag punch, WHS glitter pen!

Christmas Card 2

 

Here is another Christmas card... I am now rationing myself to making 1 card per day and only after I have read my dose on Thatcherism for my dissertation. I really don't like this card that much, I'm posting it to see if it's just my taste it doesn't appeal to, or everyone else's as well! It's just too "busy" - sometimes I think my cards are too bare so I tried to redress the balance but I think I've overcompensated! Anyway, let me know what you think.

Contents: Woodware snowflake and circle punches, green card from The Papermill Shop, green ribbon from CraftsuDo, Dovecraft Christmas Blues papers, silver peeloff.

Daring Cardmakers Ribbon Challenge

 

*EDIT* I have now turned the bow on the ribbon round after receiving the below comments!

Well, I thought I'd take the plunge and do my first DCM challenge... and this week it was to make a Christmas card using lots of ribbon. I used my new Dovecraft Christmas Blues paper and holepunched it to weave some green ribbon into the card. I then used my Woodware circle and mini snowflake punches and mounted these on the top and bottom of the card. I'm fairly pleased with it, especially the use of the ribbon, but I have to say those colours don't look too Christmassy! But it was fun to have a focus while making a card, so I'll definitely have a go at some more DCM challenges. :)

Christmas Cards!

Very excitingly half of my order for a batch of Christmassy stuff came today (Royal Mail, for a change, could not succeed in delaying it!) so I'll be starting on the Christmas cards soon. Keep looking and you might catch some special Yuletide deals as well. Ahh, sometimes I wish I could just quit my degree and spend all day making pretty things.